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Fast Forward German Soccer Club Bayern Munich Apologizes For Tweet Evoking Auschwitz
Bayern Munich apologized to anyone who saw Holocaust imagery in a graphic the German soccer club posted on Twitter. Replying to the original tweet hours after posting it Wednesday, Bayern said it had not meant to “hurt feelings” and was only trying to promote its match later that day against Juventus. The graphic shows train…
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Fast Forward Banned! Germany Puts Kibosh On Neo-Nazi Group
BERLIN – Germany has banned the neo-Nazi group “White Wolves Terror Crew” (WWT) following raids on 15 properties across the country as worries grow about a rise in right-wing sentiment after the influx of more than a million migrants last year. Attacks on refugee shelters are increasing, with more than 200 on migrant hostels this…
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Fast Forward Germany’s Top Nazi Hunter To Keep Up Chase for Another Decade
BERLIN – Undeterred by dwindling numbers of living suspects, Germany’s top Nazi hunter is determined to keep tracking down criminals involved in Hitler’s murder machine for another decade. As a handful of new Auschwitz-related trials get underway, Jens Rommel says his work is getting more difficult every year and yields only modest results. But it…
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Fast Forward Israeli Tourism Minister Shuns Germany Due to Nazi Past
Israel’s tourism minister said he will not make an official visit to Germany due to its Nazi past. Yariv Levin of the ruling Likud party said Saturday night that the idea of a visit to Germany makes him “uneasy,” Israel Hayom reported Sunday. Levin missed a major international tourism fair last week in Berlin, where…
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Fast Forward German Jews Laud Effort To Ban Neo-Nazi Party
Germany’s top Jewish organization has applauded a new attempt to ban the country’s main neo-Nazi party. Three days of hearings began Tuesday in Germany’s top court – the Federal Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe – to examine the constitutionality of outlawing the far-right National Democratic Party of Germany (NPD). It would be the second attempt to…
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Fast Forward Former Auschwitz Medic On Duty During Anne Frank Arrival To Be Tried in Germany
(Reuters) – A 95-year-old former Nazi SS paramedic at the Auschwitz death camp, accused of being an accomplice to the murder of thousands, is to stand trial in Germany on Monday, one in a series of such recent cases. Hubert Zafke was serving as a medic in the SS at the biggest death camp in…
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Fast Forward Iconic German Church Candelabrum Was Actually Torah Stand
German scholars believe that a large candelabrum in a cathedral in Erfurt was originally a Torah stand made for a local synagogue in the 13th century. The team of researchers from the University of Erfurt, a city 150 miles southwest of Berlin, found that the Dom Cathedral candelabrum, in the form of a life-sized man…
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Fast Forward German Jewish Cemeteries Hit by Wave of Vandalism
Acts of vandalism were reported at several German Jewish cemeteries and memorials in recent weeks. Unidentified individuals defaced dozens of “stumbling block” memorials in the Tempelhof-Schöneberg district of Berlin, covering them with grey paint on Tuesday, according to police, who are investigating the incident. The small, brass blocks set into sidewalks note the last dwelling…
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